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...direct Saudi aid to anti-Soviet fighters in their war against Moscow. And since 1998, as head of the Saudi intelligence service, he's made a number of attempts to negotiate a deal to get Osama bin Laden out of Afghanistan. He failed. Still, Turki believes the current American method of trying to extract bin Laden is ill-advised...
...Turki says putting U.S. commandos on the ground is one possible way of getting bin Laden, but that method certainly won't be easy. "The guy knows the country better than you or I, and he has people who know it better than him," Turki says. "I'm sure throughout the last couple of years he has been planning hiding places for himself, and figuring out routes to get there, and setting up decoys and diversions so that airplanes can't find him, and so satellites don't trace his movements. He is that kind of person...
...grass. And no, not photographs of grass, but a photographic process using grass as a sort of photo paper. Ackroyd and Harvey have created a method in which the photosynthesis of grass is used to make an image. The artists plant grass in clay screens and expose the grass to an image as it grows. Depending on the amount of light different areas receive the blades will develop different pigmentation. Less light turns the grass to a white or yellow; more light means more different intensities of green...
Currently, Harvard’s resources tend to target female victims of sexual violence, a method which Harvard University Police Department officer Amy DiVirgilio says is only eliminating half the problem. DiVirgilio believes that at least 75 percent of the 90 percent of rapes that are perpetrated by someone the victim knows are preventable by education. “So many guys have told me that a lot of girls just say no because they’ll feel like a slut if they say yes right away,” she says. “We need to have...
Some in Northern Ireland remain worried that the size and method of the arms disposal remain shrouded in secrecy, which De Chastelain says is needed to continue the process. Gina Murray, whose 13-year-old daughter was killed by an I.R.A. bomb exactly eight years before decommissioning, is not alone in having doubts. "I think I have to see it to believe it," she said. But O?Dowd says the actions solved the republican movement?s problems in the U.S. at a stroke. At home, the peace process is revived, but some of its deepest problems haven?t been resolved...